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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mein Kampf published?

2. What name referred to Stalin's campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery?

3. When did the development of hotels with leisure complexes become a popular development in the United States?

4. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?

5. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of the pseudo-event does Boorstin explore in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

2. What has psychological analysis done to the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?

3. What does Boorstin assert of travelers' dissociation since the advent of tourism?

4. What is the effect of the extravagant expectations held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

5. How was the second story a pseudo-event in Boorstin's example of "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

6. How does Boorstin distinguish pseudo-events from propaganda?

7. How did Charles Lindbergh succumb to celebrity, according to Boorstin?

8. How do the personalities of celebrities evolve, according to Boorstin?

9. Who was Karl Baedeker? What did he pioneer?

10. What does Boorstin write can be mass-produced today, in Chapter 2 - Section I? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are pseudo-events distinguished from propaganda? What is the purpose of each? What is the effect of each?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and describe the evolution of tourism in America. How did the car change travel? How did the airplane? What effect have these advances had, according to Boorstin?

Essay Topic 3

Define pseudo-event. How does Boorstin apply this term to American culture today? How did the pseudo-event develop?

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